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%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example 4-3-32 on page I-357 in "Column formatting".
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%% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach
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%% See https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
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\documentclass{tlc3exa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{159.0pt}

%StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{multicol,ragged2e}
\setlength\multicolbaselineskip{-1pt plus 1pt}
%StopShownPreambleCommands

\begin{document}
\begin{multicols}{2}  \RaggedRight
  In this example the space between lines has been
  deliberately reduced to show the possible effects.
  Be careful not to add high amounts of \texttt{plus}
  or you may get strange vertical stretch favored
  over running a column short.
\end{multicols}
\end{document}